Originally Posted by
Ben and Jerry
Very simple. if I pay for the privilege of sitting in E+ (either by spending $$ directly, or by spending lots of $$ to get status and thus free E+), it's gonna annoy the hell out of me if someone comes up and just takes it without paying for it.
If you don't like the concept of E+ and E-: go fly southwest.
You may have missed the part where OP said he went into a vacant row.
Let's take it one step further...does everyone here agree that putting your stuff into a vacant middle seat when you're in the window seat is theft? Because by most of the logic displayed here, yep, that's theft too. To me, the people in E+ who would be mad about this are playing their DYKWIA card more than anything.